The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
TRAINMEN TRY A BLUFF.
SUPERINTENDENT TAYLOR'S LIFE
THREATENED.

was letter in dainty envelope. 1t was
addressed to Mr., Taylor who opened it and
found the following threatened missive:
Don't make any more arrests, d you,
or we will cut your d wires and do it as
often as we please. You can't get us all,
and you had better let the matter drop.
Dennison, o., April l2."
This letter would indicate that the thieves
have not all been captured and that the
gang was well organized.
THE BRAKEMEN's BROTHERHOOD.
John Nmmo, Chief of the brotherhood of
Brakemen on the Pan Handle road. called
upon Deputy Mayor Gripp, before whom
warrants had been sworn out this morning
and stated that he had been employed on the
Pan Handle road for the past four months.
During that time he had never seen any
thing crooked among the employees. The
Brotherhood, he said, would employ counsel
to defend the prisoners, and il possible
establish their innocence. If proofs were
shown of their guilt, however. the Brother
hood would assist in their conviction. It
was the intention also to proceed against the
company for damages if the charges against
any of the men under arrest are not sus-
tanned
MANY MEN UNSUsPECTED.
Superintendent Taylor, in speaking of the
arrests, stated to-day that there were still
large number of traipmen on the Pittsburg
division ON whom there did not rest the
slightest suspicion.
For these the company has the kindest
feeling. He said that there We're eighty
through freights between Pittsburg and
Columbus. eOf this number thirty-fve were
south of Dennison and went un-
der surveillance. Of the remain
ing forty-five crews employing
lSU men, sixty were arrested This left
about 120 men between Pittsburg and Den
nison, he said, who were not under srspi-
con and We're still working. The United
States authorities have decided to proceed
against the Pan Handle plunderers for
breaking into government bonded cars An
investigation is now in progress here, and
the matter will then be laid before the De
partment of Justice for further action.
THE MONEY LOSS VERY HEAVY.
AS time progresses most positive and CON
firmatory evidence accumulates to show that
the peculations of the Pan Handle road have
been far in excess of what has been reported
by the officials, and others who might he in
terested, in placing the losses at the lowest
figure. This afternoon it came to light that
on car which was rified on Sunday, April
3, between this city and Dennison, not sin
gle article of value was left behind. This bold
move on the part of the railway freebooters
brought them booty valued at $500. 1t
has been stated by parties in the American
Detective Bureaus offices in this city that
the stolen goods stored in the rear Of Mr.
Gulkinson's private office contains 100000
worth OF valuables part OF which was OBJ
tanned at the city fences"
AN ADDITION TO THE LOOT.
An addition has been made to the recov-
cred property by goods brought back from
New Waterford, o.. by detective John T.
Norris, who also had with him Elmer
Young, another of the accused robbers The
railroad company has already satisfied most
of the claims of the consignees of stolen
property. The goods in the hands of the de
tectives will be sold at auction when all the
cases are settled in court. Trunks will not
be unpacked until hearings are held before
Alderman Gripp on Monday. In further
confirmation of the theory that the rob
berries have been in excess of what have been
reported, and that the losses extend well into
the hundreds of thousands the statements of
John Hampton, who has been attending to
the legal end of the case, is alone sufficient.
THE COUNsEL's STATEMENT
Said he Had the counsel and officials of
the Pan Handle railroad desired TO arrest all
of the employees of the road who were di-
rectly or indirectly connected with the rob
berries it would have been necessary to stop
the operation of the road. When the case
had been worked up to the point of making
arrests, selection was made from long lists
of names, the supposed ringleaders being the
ones against whom charges were preferred"
Not only is the number against whom infor-
nations were made small in comparison with
what it might have been, according TO Mr.
Hampton1s statement, but as was learned
through positive statement by Alderman
Gripp to-day, not more than half of those
charged in the informations have been ar
rested.
FLEEING FROM DANGER
Since the first arrests the Pan Handle men,
including many for whom warrants were
out, commenced fleeing from dangers way
in all directions. Assistant District Attor-
ney Fagan stated that there We're at least 106
informations and that some of them named
eight and ten persons On an average he
said, each of the 106 pformations contained
the names of at least three persons From
these statements, therefore, it will be seen
that however large the number of railrOaders
under arrest, and however successful the de-
tectives were in making their descent upon
the train robbers, fully half OF the number
intended TO be arrested are still at large,
PROTESTING INNOCENCE.
John Hastings, one of the accused, was
interviewed this afternoon. He protested
his innocence, ana claimed that, although
he had been in the employ of the
company for ten years he did not
even know of this stealing business two
months ago He said: ~ had a tip that
the arrests were 10 be made three days be
fore they occurred, and if | had been guilty
| could have skipped and got out OF the
way Who told me thisl Well, railroad
man How do ] know where he heard il
/ suppose he knew so because the company
was taking the names and residences Of all
the trainmen.
''Could cars be robbed without your
knowledgep
"Well should say they could. When a
conductor has TO run his train on a siding
and walk from "A half 20 "A mile 20 a tele-
graph station for orders, how could / know
II ears were broken Openl The orders were
for the conductors 20 always go IN person b
the office and regard no red signals unless
the orders indicated them. As for the
goods found in my house, ! can easily ao-
count for them
ONE OF THE FIRST CLUES.
gr. LOUIS, No, April BAN interesting
account Of bow the Pan Handle railroad
robbery was discovered rs printed here. II
avs; "1he strongest evidence of The guilt
of fhe nailes alTesld for completely ~ the
wholesale plumber wnH developed from "a
Government bonded car whill had been
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